Title Do glaciers listen? : local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination / Julie Cruikshank

Published Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005

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Description xii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Series Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series Contents Introduction : the stubborn particulars of voice -- Memories of the Little Ice Age -- Constructing life stories : glaciers as social spaces -- Listening for different stories -- Two centuries of stories from Lituya Bay : nature, culture, and La Pérouse -- Bringing icy regions home : John Muir in Alaska -- Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the Congo -- Mapping boundaries : from stories to borders -- Melting glaciers and emerging histories Summary "Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples." "Focusing on contrasting views during the late stages of the Little Ice Age (1550-1900), Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes. She then traces how the divergent views weave through contemporary debates about cultural meanings as well as current discussions about protected areas, parks, and the new World Heritage site. Readers interested in anthropology and Native and northern studies will find this a rich addition to circumpolar literature."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-302) and index Subject Tlingit Indians -- Saint Elias Mountains -- Folklore Athapascan Indians -- Saint Elias Mountains -- Folklore Glaciers -- Saint Elias Mountains -- Folklore Ice fields -- Saint Elias Mountains -- Folklore Human ecology -- Saint Elias Mountains Oral tradition -- Saint Elias Mountains SUBJECT Saint Elias Mountains -- Discovery and exploration Saint Elias Mountains -- Folklore Saint Elias Mountains -- Environmental conditions Genre/Form Folklore. LC no. 2004030838 ISBN 0295985135 (alk. paper) 9780295985138 (alk. paper) 0295985143 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780295985145 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780774811873 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0774811870 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0774811862 9780774811866

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